1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election
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Turnout | 62.2% ( 15.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1986 Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 July 1986 for the House of Commons constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Previous MP
The seat had become vacant on 24 June 1986. The constituency's
John Golding had been an MP since the 1969 by-election in the seat. He was appointed as General Secretary of the National Communications Union in 1986 and retained that office until 1988.
Candidates
Seven candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.
1. Representing the Labour Party was the former MPs wife,
Mrs Golding was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1986 to 2001. After stepping down at the 2001 general election she was created a Life peer as Baroness Golding, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire in the same year.
2. The Liberal Party candidate, representing the
3. The Conservative candidate was James Charles Barton Nock, a senior partner in a hotel development in Kent. Nock was aged 51 in 1986. He had been a member of Canterbury City Council since 1978 and was Leader of the Council at the time of the by-election.
5. David Edward Sutch (more commonly known as Screaming Lord Sutch) (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), was a pop singer and frequent participant in elections. He represented the Official Monster Raving Loony Party at this by-election. This was the twelfth parliamentary election Sutch had been a candidate at.
5. John Alan Gaskell was an Independent, using the ballot paper label "Rainbow Alliance Prince Charles Appreciation Party".
6. James Parker was an Independent candidate, using the ballot paper description "Referendum on Nuclear Energy".
7. David D'Arcy Brewester was another Independent candidate, using the ballot paper label "Rainbow Alliance Bob Geldof Appreciation Party".
Votes
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Llin Golding
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16,819 | 40.8 | -1.2 | |
Liberal | Alan Thomas | 16,020 | 38.8 | +17.2 | |
Conservative | James Nock | 7,863 | 19.0 | -17.4 | |
Monster Raving Loony | David Sutch | 277 | 0.7 | New | |
Independent
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John Gaskell | 115 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent
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James Parker | 83 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent
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David Brewester | 70 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 799 | 2.0 | -3.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,247 | 62.2 | -15.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Registered electors | 66,353 |
See also
- Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency
- List of United Kingdom by-elections
- United Kingdom by-election records
Sources
- ^ Boothroyd, David. "Results of Byelections in the 1983-87 Parliament". United Kingdom Election Results. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985)